Bob-RJ B.
Subscriber since: January 2012
Location: Lawrence, KS
About Me
Introduction
Eco-Futures Forum Navigator at University of Kansas -
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute via http://bit.ly/AdBcVM

Occupation ... EarthSea-Keeping Guide @ http://bit.ly/wllqlN
Employment
KVHAdventuring
EarthSea-Keeping Guide, 2002 - present
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/geowizard
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Favorite Word:

psychological operation
Author Eugene Burdick's future history novel "The 480" (1965) inspired my memetics research. See "MegaFlood Mystery" GeoVenturing prototype @ http://bit.ly/xHQog8

Least Favorite Word:

bluster
Tracing root cause of FFnha's "manifest destiny myths" with Failure Mode & Effects Analysis
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Favorite Quote:

"THINK Globally and InterACT Regionally but LEARN Locally"
- Me

Favorite Topics:

Blogs:

Getting "Gatsby": The Language Behind the Novel
May 10, 2013 - 1 Comment
Obsolete Words Worth Reviving?
March 21, 2013

Creativity:

Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010 - 2 Comments

Dictionaries:

A Taxing Day for Dictionaries
April 15, 2013
A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
January 23, 2013 - 3 Comments

Fiction writing:

The Power of General Statements
January 23, 2012 - 15 Comments
The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011 - 12 Comments

Language arts:

A Wicked Worksheet of the Week
May 15, 2013
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013 - 1 Comment

Libraries:

Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
January 15, 2013
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011 - 4 Comments

Linguistics:

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Meronymy?
May 1, 2013 - 11 Comments
What's Happening?
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers March 1, 2013 - 6 Comments

Media:

Words from a "Surreal" Week in Boston
April 22, 2013 - 2 Comments
Roger Ebert's Lexicon: Fruit Carts, Idiot Plots, and Wunza Movies
April 5, 2013 - 7 Comments

Naming:

XOXO Marks the Spot
February 14, 2013
How to Name Anything
January 17, 2013 - 4 Comments

Public relations:

Optimizing Your Press Releases For the Web
February 15, 2008 - 1 Comment
Publicity How-To, For Free
January 17, 2008

Storytelling:

Type Casting
January 24, 2012 - 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011 - 5 Comments

Usage:

Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 22, 2013 - 1 Comment
"Beat-Upedness"?
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 21, 2013 - 4 Comments

Word Origins:

Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013

Writers:

Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 14, 2013 - 2 Comments
Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013 - 3 Comments